IV. LIST OF BIRDS
which I saw in Maine between July 24 and August 3, 1857
A very small hawk at Great Falls, on Webster Stream.
Haliæetus leucocephalus (white-headed or bald eagle), at Ragmuff, and above and below Hunt’s, and on pond below Mattawamkeag.
Pandion haliaëtus (fish hawk or osprey), heard, also seen on East Branch.
Bubo Virginianus (cat owl), near Camp Island, also above mouth of Schoonis, from a stump back and forth, also near Hunt’s on a tree.
Icterus phœniceus (red-winged blackbird), Umbazookskus River.
Corvus Americanus (American crow), a few, as at outlet of Grand Lake; a peculiar cawing.
Fringilla Canadensis (tree sparrow), think I saw one on Mount Kineo, July 24, which behaved as if it had a nest there.
Garrulus cristatus (blue jay).
Parus atricapillus (chickadee), a few.
Muscicapa tyrannus (kingbird).
Muscicapa Cooperii (olive-sided flycatcher), everywhere a prevailing bird.
Muscicapa virens (wood pewee), Moosehead, and I think beyond.
Muscicapa acadica (small pewee), common.
Muscicapa ruticilla (American redstart), Moosehead.
Vireo olivaceus (red-eyed vireo), everywhere common.
Turdus migratorius (red-breasted robin), some everywhere.
Turdus melodus (wood thrush), common in all the woods.
Turdus Wilsonii (Wilson’s thrush), Moosehead and beyond.
Turdus aurocapillus (golden-crowned thrush or oven-bird), Moosehead.
Fringilla albicollis (white-throated sparrow), Kineo and after, apparently nesting; the prevailing bird early and late.
Fringilla melodia (song sparrow), at Moosehead or beyond.
Sylvia pinus (pine warbler), one part of voyage.
Trichas Marylandica (Maryland yellow-throat), everywhere.
Coccyzus Americanus (?) (yellow-billed cuckoo), common.
Picus erythrocephalus (red-headed woodpecker), heard and saw, and good to eat.
Sitta Carolinensis (?) (white-breasted American nuthatch), heard.
Alcedo alcyon (belted kingfisher), very common.
Caprimulgus Americanus (nighthawk).
Tetrao umbellus (partridge), Moosehead Carry, etc.
Tetrao cupido (?) (pinnated grouse), Webster Stream.
Ardea cærulea (blue heron), lower part of Penobscot.
Totanus macularius (spotted sandpiper or peetweet), everywhere.
Larus argentatus (?) (herring gull), Heron Lake on rocks, and Chamberlain. Smaller gull on Second Lake.
Anas obscura (dusky or black duck), once in East Branch.
Anas sponsa (summer or wood duck), everywhere.
Fuligula albeola (spirit duck or dipper), common.
Colymbus glacialis (great northern diver or loon), in all the lakes.
Mergus Merganser (buff-breasted merganser or sheldrake), common on lakes and rivers.
A swallow; the night-warbler (?) once or twice.